This
is a beautiful book. Beauty-full.
Yes,
that is exactly how I would describe writer-cum-social activist
Arundhati Roy’s 1997 Man Booker Prize winning novel, The God of
Small Things. Ms Roy’s brilliant interplay with words gifts the
reader entry to a different world that he can see and feel - and that
is where the beauty lies. The reader can play the scenes in his mind:
the lucid writing ensures the he is seeing the things and not reading
about them. The story is not a surprise; the characters could be the
ones out of any Hindi prime-time soap that we are so familiar with.
Yet, something makes her book different: she creates the
extraordinary out of the ordinary.
